Forgotten toys

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So I was browsing Amazon looking at what toys they have for offer and I came across this. Remember that? Man, it was like the thing to have for about five minutes in our elementary school. I can't for the life of me remember how old I was (cue: young'uns singing:"You're old, bitch!") at the time. I just know I didn't have it for long.

Jon mentioned those skip-it toys from the late 80s. Well, I didn't have that - would be kinda silly for me to be playing that in high school - but I did have something similar and more prehistoric. I just remember it was orange, plastic and I was wearing fucking CLOGS when I tried it out. My parents suggested I wore shoes so it would be easier, but stubborn silly twit refused to wear anything but clogs. It took me, as a result of the clogs and my stupidity to master motoric things - a looooong time to do it successfully.

I had this GREBT clock from Disney World. It was Micky on a train and shouting, or rather screaming, to wake up and shit. I think I used it once. My parents flatout refused me to use it again. I still have it. A guy came into our shop once saying some kid (me!) had bought the last one at the Disney store. My mom begged me to sell it (to put herself out of the misery of having to hear the damn thing go off). He offered about 150 dollars which was a big deal at the time. I was a moron. I said no.

After sitting in my closet for a few years I got interested in "how things work" and took it apart with a screw driver untill it was in a million pieces Then I felt really guilty because it had been an expensive toy, so I brought it out to the trash, it's innards spread out amongst many garbage bags brought out over time.

we also had this at my dad's - hours of fun knocking people into the pit. kind of terrifying tbh. but fun! we even painted the 3d game pieces. jabba was particularly ugly in plastic green form what with uneven red blobs of paint for eyes. i remember being pretty adamant abt getting the green mixed right so it wld be the perfect green-yellow-brown colour.

i recall it being more substantial than this. but uh, no, it is made of light cardboard...

I was in two toy shops yesterday sadly enough. I stood in front of the Revell kits thinking sad thoughts about when and where I could find the time to make them. Still though, it was nice to see all the packaging etc was the same! I was shocked when the first one had Academy brand, imports howya? Madness!

This thread reminds me that my in-laws have an old Fisher Price Little People house that features an open-fire cooking situation in the kitchen and a color television in the living room. The kids like to play with it; the adults like to laugh at it.

Yes! My sister and the neighbor girl were into these, sort of a charm bracelet version of Transformers. Neighbor had the house which was pretty cool. No one else remembers them though. It's funny how you kind of assume the toys you played with must have been the really popular ones of the era, even though it just ends up being what caught your dad's eye at Service Merchandise or whatever. But for a simple twist of fate you would reminisce about entirely different toys that occupied endless weeks of childhood.

For me, it was as much yard-sale Playmobil as could possibly be attained, populating a world of wooden blocks and miscellaneous plastic monsters et cetera. I was talking the other day with some people about this and discovered that to many, this kind of toy integration was considered some sort of sacrilege - to me it was just so natural!

do kids still play with toy cars ? i assume they do, so have the toy cars come along in any advanced way like do they have any steering mechanism yet? i always hoped for some kind of pressure sensitive side doors that would control the front wheels.

So the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was Creepy Crawlers (and the Creeple People, Fun Flowers etc. variants.) Evidently there's a version of these plastic-molding things still being made.